What primal pulse propels the starry dust to fill the seeming void? Throughout the vast expanding universe that vibrant gust elates, enthralls all in its bursting blast. What constant...

(after being stopped after my day-care shift) Exhausted, overwhelmed, confused, up-set. As when a toddler bellows on the rug. So small and powerless, her needs unmet, she fights me, but I...

How strong it is, this feeling of regret, You long to see the lands and loves you've known. (For Eden's flowers fade if you forget) In dreams you may return, but wake alone. Yes, now I know...

I later heard she almost died. Although she didn't try to keep the fact from me, the how and how come wasn't mine to know. My feelings weren't her first priority. So when I heard, I had...

"No animals were harmed during the filming of this production" American Humane Association 1980 Across the screen a cowboy rides the plain. We watched. He stops. I bounced on grandma's...

It was hot today, 100 degrees someone said. That is hard to imagine, but it was so. Sometimes in unusual weather what is created is an unusual day, since the extreme leads to a chance to see...

Macabre Meditations on my Mother
By Reid Baer

I fear I was abandoned as
a baby by my mother on
the steps of a nearby mental
institution to be reared by...

Straight Talk for High-Risk Children
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High Risk Children
By Reid Baer

My unipolar mother whistled past the graveyard
or more correctly groaned enviously...

Back there are storage rooms crammed to the beams with trunks of costumes, coats, and shoes and hats, old scripts and notes in boxes, powders, creams and tables, chairs and thickly painted...

How dare you? You thought, no, you assumed I would... because you did that I might too. And if I don't? Just because you flirt at bookstores, wander the library stacks, scan the trade at...